Best Stoke Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July or August, at eight or nine o'clock, after a slight shower during the night, to enhance the dews in the shadowed part of the picture, under 'Hedge row elms and hillocks green.' Then the plough, cart, horse, gate, cows, donkey, &c. are all good paintable material for the foreground, and the size of the canvas sufficient to try one's strength, and keep one at full collar.”

Trying Night Morning Painting Materials Summer Horse Green Size Eight Glad Nine Clock Sufficient Gates Cows Canvas Showers July Dew August Collars Carts Donkey Foreground Stoke

Author:John Constable

“The situation is getting worse, and people are losing hope. That despair stokes violence.”

People Situation Violence Despair Losing Losing Hope Stoke

Author:Saleh al-Mutlaq

“I worry an awful lot about people and how they're faring. When I worry about people, whether their job is squashing their spirit, pushing them into a darker pathway of not feeling good about their life, that forces me to look for what's good. What's going well. That stokes a lot of positive feelings. Although I do worry, I look for the hope.”

People Wells Looks Feelings Jobs Spirit Force Worry Feel Good Awful Pushing Pathways Stoke Positive Feelings Not Feeling Good

Author:Debra Granik

“Im an actor. The fact that Im involved in Jigsaw, I dont approach Jigsaw any differently than I approached The Nordic in The Firm or FBI Agent Stokes in Mississippi Burning. Its the same deal. Its just that the effect is sometimes different. So I say, people ask me, How does it feel to be a horror icon? Im thrilled. Its great.”

People Feels Doe Different Sometimes Facts Actors Asks Deals Effects Involved Horror Approach Agents Burning Ask Me Firm Icons Fbi Mississippi Jigsaw Nordic Stoke Fbi Agents

Author:Tobin Bell

“God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends of mine. They give me great career advice. I would also include Chris Stokes, as a filmmaker and music producer. I've been working with him since I was eight.”

Giving Looks Has Beens Inspiration Numbers Careers Advice Mines Give Me Eight Producers Filmmaker Look Up Foxes Jamie Career Advice Stoke Music Producer

Author:Marques Houston

“The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.”

Hard Care Force Quality Benefits Patient Profit Reform Populist Health System Stoke Quality Care

Author:Jerrold Nadler

“With mountain biking, it's always that constant thing, negotiating singletrack, which I like, but for a road ride that rhythm is really Buddhist. When you get a good pedal stoke, it's that thing of everything works.”

Mountain Constant Rhythm Buddhist Negotiating Pedals Biking Stoke Mountain Biking

Author:Robin Williams

“Muslims want the western countries to apologize. Why? because this gives them a sense of empowerment. It makes them feel good about themselves, it stokes their ego.”

Want Giving Feels Country Ego Empowerment Western Feel Good Apologizing Stoke

Author:Ali Sina

“See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire.”

Children Fire Shirts Pale Ragged Linen Stoke

Book:Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic

“Revenge for a terror attack is ideal for Putin's model. His propaganda machine will be filled with scenes of crash victims if [Vladimir] Putin sees the need for a larger war to stoke his domestic support again as the Russian economy teeters.”

Ifs Needs War Support Economy Scene Models Ideals Machines Victim Filled Terror Revenge Propaganda Crash Putin Stoke Terror Attacks Russian Economy

Author:Garry Kasparov

“If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?”

Ifs Answers Fire Imagine Doors Function Clean Cooks Household Staff Suggesting Coordinates Stoke

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.”

Ideas Spirit Risk Pursue Fuel Innovative Entrepreneurial Risk-taking Innovative Ideas Entrepreneurial Spirit Stoke

Book:Working with Emotional Intelligence

Source: Working with Emotional Intelligence

“I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.”

Doe Use Sports Fire Fans Guarantees Stoke

Author:Bo Jackson

“Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.”

Feels Art Form Pay Attention Fire Too Much Youth Musician Jazz Pay Attention Jazz Music Jazz Musician Funk Stoke

Author:Talib Kweli

“I think musically, there's always the stuff you're into that you've always been into but every once in a while there's a new band that kind of stokes you out a little, at least for me.”

Thinking Kind Littles Stuff Band Stoke

Author:Dusty Redmon

“A Republican primary race that has for months alternated between spectacle and abomination has over the past 20th hours ignited into a raging, full-blown dumpster fire. One stoke by a group of men who hope to become the most powerful person in the world.”

Men World Persons Past Hours Powerful Race Fire Groups Months Republican Rage Primaries Most Powerful Over The Past Abomination Stoke Dumpsters Powerful Person

Author:Chris Hayes

“I won't let others stoke fear in my heart. I choose to remain true to who I am and where my dreams direct me no matter the hardship I might incur. I remember it always: Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.”

Heart Matter Dream Might Remember Winning My Heart Direct Who I Am Hardship Stoke

Author:Brendon Burchard

“I certainly wouldn't say that we loved the arms race. Trillions of dollars were used to stoke it. For our economy, which was smaller in size than the American economy, it was a burden. But one cannot agree with the statement that the arms race played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union.”

Used Race Roles Economy Arms Keys Agree Dollars Unions Size Burden Statements Soviet Collapse Soviet Union Arms Race American Economy Stoke

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“Let kids dream! Let them fantasize. Let them plan all these great things they want to be. Stoke it, instead of limiting what you think people can do and limiting what you think their capabilities are. And liberals, by definition, do that. They don't think anybody's capable of much. That's why government's need.”

People Thinking Want Needs Dream Government Kids Can Do Plans Capable Definitions Great Things Capability Stoke

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.”

Way Technology Economy Century Innovation Engines 21st Century Science And Technology Stoke

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.”

Ifs Stuff Brian Stoke

Author:Estelle Parsons

“Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.”

Long Fear Knowing Conflict Divorce Lawyer Streams Clients Revenue Divorced After Divorce Happy Divorce Stoke Anger And Fear Divorce Lawyers

Author:Craig Ferguson

“Old pain doesn't completely die. Time may soothe it, stoke over it until it looks like it has healed, but it never dies properly. It stays with you, it lives in the cracks of your soul, waiting for moments when you feel true pain”

Feels Looks May Soul Moments Pain Dies Waiting Your Soul Over It Cracks Healed Stoke

Author:Dorothy Koomson

“Imma violate yall asses like Chris Stokes.”

Ass Bad Ass Stoke

Author:Nicki Minaj

“Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops. A human caress from a cat. I felt very meagre and ill-educated that I could not purr.”

Humans Looks Used Felt Fronts Cat Ill Intense Educated Concentration Cheeks Caress Paws Stoke

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

“I hope Stoke stay up this season, and stay up for long enough so that they can get enough money and buy some footballers.”

Long Enough Football Seasons Soccer Analysis Footballer Stoke

Author:Mick Dennis

“Stokes gets a straight yellow for that challenge.”

Challenges Football Yellow Stoke

Author:Ronnie Whelan

“What was I like? I had a high-pitched voice. Sounded a bit like a girl. Spoke with a Stoke accent, tremendously naive. Overconfident. Tremendously overconfident. And underconfident at the same time - really, really bad combination! Gets you places, though.”

Girl Bits Voice Combination Spokes Accents Naive Overconfident Stoke

Author:Robbie Williams

“I've got this brilliant thing where I go, 'I'm Robbie Williams', and people are interested in what I want to say - which is amazing because I'm just an idiot from Stoke-on-Trent.”

People Want Brilliant Idiot Stoke

Author:Robbie Williams

“I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.”

Feels Havens Rely Justify Old Days Stoke

Author:Robbie Williams

“Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth.”

Knows Humans Kind Whole Left Nations Human Beings Politician Hatred Killing Rounds Hunger Teeth Division Tails Mystical Biting Snapping Stoke

Book:The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series

Source: The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series

“I don't really believe in targets, because my next target is to beat Stoke City”

Believe Next Cities Beats Soccer Target Funny Soccer Stoke

Author:Ron Wylie

“You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.”

People Fire Prejudice Down The Road Discharge Stoke Somewhere Down The Road

Author:Ernst Zundel

“One word defines the essence of surfing better for me than any other — stoke . One of the best things about stoke is that you can pass it along to someone who has never heard the expression.”

Heard Expression Essence Best Things Surfing One Word Stoke

Book:Surfer's Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life

Source: Surfer's Code: 12 Simple Lessons for Riding Through Life

“Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend Muslims and stoke violence. For example, in 2009, the administration co-sponsored a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution along those lines.”

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